Package and container



Apri 24,1934.

M. T. HELLER PACKAGE AND CONTAINER Original Filed Sept. 3, 1929 Patented Apr. 24, 1934- asses-51 1,955,851 PACKAGE AND CONTAINER Max 1:. Heller, Milwaukee, Wis.,-assignor to Mik print Products Company, Milwaukee, Wis., a

corporation of Delaware Application September 3; 1929, Serial No. 389,944 Renewed September 8, 1933 2 Claims. (Cl. 206-46) This invention relates to animproved package and container. The package herein disclosed is also disclosed'in the companion application Ea. 352,635 of Charles G. Giese relating to a process 7 and machine whereby this package may be manufactured commercially.

It is the primary objectof the invention to provide a novel and improved package for foods in which substantial end caps of heavy paper,

cardboard, or the like are held in spaced relation by the contents ofthe package and are secured together by a very light and preierablytransparent sheet of flexible material connecting. the end-- cap s and hermetically sealing the contents of the package therewithin. V c In'the drawing: Figure l is a perspective illustration of a partially completed package which, for purposes of illustration, isshown containing cookies. Figure 2 is a perspectiveview showing a completed package of cookies in an upright position. Figure 3' is a modified form of the invention showing in a view similar to Figure 2 a container completed and in which goods may be packaged subsequently to completion.

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1n. the construction shown in .Fig'ures 1,and 2 the end caps or carton covers 6 and! which are at a distance determined solely by the column of cookies 8 axially aligned therewith and confinedtherebetween. A sheet of very thin and prefera-' thereby hermetically sealing the edible contents 8 within the package. The cellulose material preferably employed ior'the sheet .9 is so thin and highly flexible that it allows the body to with-' stand any. substantial strains. It has, however, very materialtensile strength and since it holds;

' the caps or-headers 6 and fl closely upon the ends of the stackoi cookies at 8, the cookies'them selves are so closely confined as to support the l or the caps, .the adjoining edges 01' thewrapper entire package against lateral or; axial distortion. The complete package possesses a very attrac tive appearance since itsedible contentsareieven more .clearly visible than they would be injglass 'duction of food into the container shown in Fig- Like parts are identified by the same reference the end \rhps of the package from each other s used as headers 'for-the improvedpackage em-- bodying the present invention, are spaced apart containers, and by virtue of the completesealing of the flexible wrapper 9 to the caps 6 and 7 at its overlapping margins, the contents of the package are hermetically protected from moisture and deterioration. 6 In order to make such a container as that shown in Figure an is necessary either to use a heavier grade of wrapper" than that contemplated in the Figures 1 and 2 construction or else to take unusual precautions in-the way of pro-.

' tecting the package against distortion. In the Figure 3 device the end cap 6 is centrally aper-' vture'd at 11, the aperture being covered by a square of transparent paper 12 glued to the end capover the aperture and preferably corresponding to the wrapper 9. It will be understood, of course, that the square 12-is not secured in place until. the contents such a'silight weight candy-or the like have been introduced through the opening at 1-1. A package completed by the intro- 7 ure 3 will have the same attractive appearance and other advantages which characterize the package shown in Figures 1 and 2 withthe exception that the first described construction'per- 8o mits 01a more rigid and substantial support of since the package is necessarily and completely fullat the time of its construction.

- I claim:. v 1. A substantially cylindrical package includ ing a columnpf disc-like articles, each end of the column having a paper-like cupped cap havingrits flanges engaging over the column, the cap and contents adapted to serve as a mandrel during the manufacture or the package, and a wrap per wound about the column and secured to the flanges Ofthe caps, the adjoining edges of the wrapper being also secured together. i

2. A substantially cylindrical package including a column of disc-like articles, each end of the column having apaper-like cupped cap having its flanges engaging" over the column, the cap and contents adapted to serve vasa mandrel during the manuiactureiot the package, and a wrapper formed of thin, flexible and transparent material wound about the column and sealed tothe flanges also being sealed togethen- 

